The Sen. Ahmed Markafi-led, National Caretaker Committee of
the Peoples Democratic Party said the party would appeal the Court of Appeal
Judgement affirming Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff as chairman of the party.
The National Publicity Secretary of the Committee, Mr Dayo
Adeyeye disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja.
Adeyeye described the judgement as a “big disappointment,
travesty and miscarriage of justice.”
He said, “The minority judgement is very sound in law, logic
and fact. It gives us hope that we will have our day in the Supreme Court.
“Whereas the lead judgement left out the main issues and
laboured unconvincingly to work to a preconceived answer, the minority
judgement thrashed all the issues and upheld the judgement of the High Court in
Port Harcourt, delivered by Liman J on July 4, 2016. `
“We will certainly appeal to the Supreme Court. No reconciliatory
effort will stop it.
“We need the Supreme Court to make a pronouncement on the
issue, once and for all.”
Apart from affirming Sheriff as the National Chairman of the
PDP, the appellant court also nullified the party’s National Convention held in
the Rivers capital in 2016 and the National Caretaker Committee of the party
constituted at the convention.
Two out of the three-member Appeal Court, Justice B.G. Sanga
and Justice A. Gumel, in the judgment, said the Port Harcourt convention was an
abuse of court process.
Delivering the lead judgment, Sanga said that PDP did not
follow the provisions of Article 47(3) of its Constitution in the removal of
the Sherrif-led National Working Committee.
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